The Unfinished Palazzo

‘Rip-roaringly entertaining stories of three fascinating women’ - The Times‘Captivating, vivid and exquisitely gossipy … Stylish, sparky and packed with spicy anecdotes … my favourite kind of social history’ - Literary Review‘The best gallimaufry of gossip and scandal I have read in years’ - Lynn Barber, Sunday Times‘I gorged on the decadence and drama’ - Daily Telegraph‘Well researched, gloriously gossipy, a delightful, colourful story of reinvention and rebellion’ - Observer‘Effortlessly evoking the spirits of three extraordinary women, [Mackrell] also captures the magical atmosphere of the house and city they each called home’ - Country Life‘An ambitious epic … Mackrell treats her intrinsically sensational material with elegant restraint and wit. Her writing is sharp and unflinching … A rich, exhilarating read’ - Sydney Morning Herald‘Admirable’ - Times Literary Supplement‘Very clever and entertaining … Mackrell recounts the lives of three wildly ambitious yet vulnerable women with page-turning pace and intelligence’ - Spectator‘A breathtaking social portrait, peeling the glitter from privileged lives even as it fleshes out the spectacle they created’ - Washington Post‘Gossipy, revealing, terrifically entertaining … a Netflix series just waiting to be made’ - Herald Scotland

Judith Mackrell is the Guardian’s dance critic, and a successful author of non-fiction, including Bloomsbury Ballerina and the bestselling Flappers.

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